A Good Shake-Up

When I was a teenager and showed any signs of indolence my dad would say I needed a ‘good shake-up’ which he was usually prepared to administer usually in a kind and thoughtful way though at the time it often didn’t seem like it to my adolescent mind.

Well Mr Brown and his government have been told that they need a good shake up bv some of the electorate. I say some because I don’t think we can take pride in an average 35% local election turnout though the high-profile campaigns in London brought out 45% of people in the GLA area.

Who is to administer this to Mr Brown? It can be none other than his fellow-members of the Labour Party and in particular his cabinet colleagues who have so far shown few signs of independance of mind for fear of being accused of disloyalty. Contrast this with good signs of there being several centres of policy initiative in the shadow cabinet around people like Chris Grayling, Michael Gove and William Hague ; admittedly it is easier to be independant in opposition but major changes in Labour Party thinking and presentation are needed. I say again what are Mr Brown’s highly-paid advisers doing about this? Even if one thought they were the answer to policy confusion which they are not, their effect on presentation style seems to have been minimal so far.

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